Cloister Cobwebs (verse)
Conant, Isabel Fiske
16 THE COMMONWEAL May 12, 1926 and a veritable delight in all things that are living. MR. BARNARD'S...
...In this museum of saints with its A Child of painted wood...
...Rockefeller's collection inWho cuddled to her face, clude a fragment of an unusual stone relief from a church at It shimmered from her halo, Pont-a-Mousson...
...This lovely statue, a relic of the ISABEL FISKE CONANT...
...Because of its variety in color, it seems not quite so perfect a symbol of spotless- APPROPRIATELY secluded on tree-shaded Fort Washness...
...of the fifteenth century...
...John D. Rockesignificance some moderns insist on giving it...
...from the distinguished American sculptor, George Grey BarThe carnation is a bloom which one does not asso- nard...
...Round Mary and her wee One The new acquisitions from Mr...
...church at Nuits-sous-Ravieres, is noted for its beautifully sculp...
...Possibly a reason for this regard is, The cloister garden or outer cloister contains the prize spethat although it bears fruit which is edible, it may cimens of mediaeval art in the row of pink columns and the never reach a sufficient height to be confused with a huge marble cross from the ninth-century cloister of Saint tree-the symbol of the cross...
...It is interesting, however, to find that Suardi Heights...
...It was about of The Marriage, the bride is receiving a wreath of twelve years ago that he erected the low brick building on roses from Saint Dorothea, patron of all flowers...
...You feller, Jr., who purchased the treasures for approximately may recall, perhaps, an instance of this in Galsworthy's $6oo,ooo and then added forty-two sculptures from his own The Dark Flower-that masterly defense of an ugly private collection to those already assembled on Washington theme...
...yet he has a like blooms is in the foreground...
...It depicts the Virgin sitting up in bed...
...ists who drove the Franciscans out of France...
...He found chipped Madonnas in peasant wineOrley, at the Metropolitan, the robes of the Queen cellars and farm-yards, and small altars propping up broken of Heaven sweep many tiny, green-growing things, but fences around pig-stys...
...Nearby stands a fourteenthEver since then, cobwebs century Virgin and Child, a product of the School of the Have had a holy power Vosges...
...The Saint Guieham columns and And wove all about Him capitals show the destructive hands of the French RevolutionA protecting veil...
...queen of both By EDYTHE H. BROWNE heavenly and earthly love...
...BARNARD'S CLOISTERS Next to the lily comes the rose...
...array of statues, columns, arches, altars, tombs, shadowy balconies, and alcoves with spirit-lights aglow in dark corners, An ancient spider watched her- whispering is more in order than loud talking...
...In a Madonna by Van choice pieces...
...A beautiful spray-full-blown bloom, bud, leaves ington Avenue at One Hundred and Ninetieth Street, -is to be seen at the left of Andrea del Verocchio's far from the noise of the busy centres of New York, stands Madonna, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art...
...other relief in the passageway leading to the Cuxa columns details the death of the Virgin...
...The Stations of the Cross sunk in a side wall of the outer cloister still retain Cloister Cobwebs their original vivid hues...
...north transept, and triforium...
...berry in bloom...
...Barnard is not a Catholic...
...Barnard's Cloisters, or rather The Cloisters, for the Metropolitan Museum of Art has recently acquired this Gothic misFruit, such as the three cherries at the right of the cellany of mediaeval columns, statues, altar pieces, and slabs canvas, are occasionally introduced with flowers...
...AnA soft, unpatterned lace...
...The Cloisters is now New York's great are skilfully drawn aside to leave space for a straw- repository of European mediaeval art of the Roman and Gothic periods from the ninth to the sixteenth century...
...A stately Gothic arch dating from fifit has been charmingly named "fruit of innocence...
...Fort Washington Avenue to house these trophies of the sacred Another plant held in especial affection during the hunt-for the collector really had to hunt and dig for his middle-ages, is the strawberry...
...Over any little wounded place The famous Magdalen is of the Burgundian School Hurt within the hour...
...The How their great ancestor cloister has its close, nave, south transept, chancel, sacristy, Knew Saint Francis well...
...There are few His grey descendants tell windows...
...In Memling's Betrothal of Saint Catherine, Love of the sacred in art led Mr...
...probably because of the amorous The acquisition was made through Mr...
...It is within these confines that That silver spinner the sculptures and columns are arranged where they artisticThought Bambino frail, ally and spiritually belong...
...of honor...
...In a dim cloister Through Spanish doors, carved in grotesque designs by A Madonna stood, monks, one enters the monastery of Saint Guieham in the Holding-flesh of her own . flesh- Desert, or inner cloister...
...soft light filters through a cloudy skylight...
...to the public for the first time on May 15 and every week-day One is glad that the more humble growths, the thereafter from ten to five o'clock, and from one to five o'clock sturdy children of the fields, are also considered worthy on Sundays...
...ciate with sacred art...
...Barnard through Italy, France, and Spain in search of these works of art that have since a lowly weed, the plantain, is used for carpeting, while been styled "the greatest collection of its kind under one roof one plant of anemone with its frail foliage and star- in the world...
...In another treatment Catholic's appreciation of truly inspired work...
...of the fifteenth century thought it worthy a place near This newest annex to the Metropolitan will be open his Mother and Child...
...16 THE COMMONWEAL May 12, 1926 and a veritable delight in all things that are living...
...teenth-century Avignon frames the Cuxa group...
...It is because of this that Michel de Cuxa...
Vol. 4 • May 1926 • No. 1
